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--- Memorial Transcription of Elliston Stone at St. Mary the Virgin, Gesstingthorpe, Essex:
Underneath this stone lyeth John Elliston of Overhall, in this Parish, who departed this life the 26 day of June in the year of our Lord 1691, in the two and thirtieth year of his Age. Mary his first wife dyed in Childbed of her first child she and her son lyeth buried in the Parish of Steeple Bumsted in this county and Ann his Second wife who Survived him and by her three sons and four daughters but since dyed his youngest son Oliver, the 29 day of July and after him his second son Peter the 15th of September, both in the same year, all three lyeth buried under this, and just by lyeth buried Peter Elliston the Father of the said John Elliston who departed this life in the year 1672, his issue he left behind him was three Sons, John, Peter and Oliver. Peter his second son departed this life in the year 1680 and lyeth buried in Lumber Street Church in London, there is now living in the Family, only John Elliston, the eldest son of the said John Elliston and Oliver Elliston, the youngest son of the said Peter Elliston, and the four Daughters of John Elliston, which is Anna, Bathca Judeth, Frances, and Susanna, which are now living.
--- "The History and Topography of the County of Essex" by Thomas Wright, 1836, page 537:
In 1608, Overhall was sold to John Sparrow, Esq. of this parish, second son of John Sparrow, of Sible Hedingham, who, in 1622, disposed of it to John Elliston the elder, and John Elliston the younger, his son, clothiers, of Sible Hedingham.
The ancestor of this family, in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was John Elliston, mercer, of Sudbury, who had a capito mansion-house in Castle Hedingham; and an estate in Great Henny, called Nicholls, which he left to his eldest son, William, by will, dated 1586. His second son, John, became the most considerable person of the family. The daughters were, Elizabeth, married to William Kidgell, and Joan and Dorothy.
John Elliston, the son, being an eminent clothier, by persevering industry acquired a captial estate.* On his death, in 1630, he left Anne, married to Thomas, second son of William Soame, of Hundon, in Suffolk; and John, his son and heir, who resided at Overhall; he married Winifred, the daughter of Robert Barrington, Esq. by whom he had Peter, Oliver Elliston, M.D. who married the widow of William Sparrow, and died in London in 1665, and several other children, who died in infancy, or before reaching maturity.
Peter, the eldest surviving son, married Judith, daughter of William Kedington, of Waldingfield, in Suffolk, by whom he had John, Peter, and Oliver. John, the eldest son and heir, had two wives; first, Mary, daughter of Thomas Mortlock, of Sturmere, who died in childbed, and, secondly, Anne, daughter of Robert Wangford, Esq. of Barwick Hall, in Toppesfield, by whom he had John, Oliver, and Peter, of whom the two last died in the year 1691, and four daughters; Anna Bertha, married to William Steel, of London; Judith, to Arthur Brown, merchant; and Frances and Susan. John Elliston, the father, died in 1691; and his son John, the last of the family succeeded.
The estate afterwards became the property of Mr. Thomas Walker, of Church House, in Henney.
* Besides the manor of Overhall, he had that of Hawkswood in Sible Hedingham.
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1626 - 1672 (~ 46 years)
